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Music Feature: Guitarist Steve Kimock — More Musical Tricks up his Sleeve

March 14, 2016
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Some records are snapshots, but Last Danger of Frost is more like a long gaze into a mirror.

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Music Review: Jason Isbell, Laid-Back — More Country Than Country-Rock

February 29, 2016
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Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).

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Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music

February 16, 2016
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Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.

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Music Interview: Paul Collins — The Still Reigning King of Power Pop

January 24, 2016
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After more than four decades, Paul Collins is still keeping The Beat

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Music Preview: Lettuce — Creating the Funk of Tomorrow

January 18, 2016
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Lettuce is in the midst of a headlining tour; on January 22 the group will be back on its old stomping grounds in Boston..

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Arts Remembrance: Appreciating David Bowie — A Virtuoso of Intimacy

January 13, 2016
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I trust Bowie, the way I trust Stevie or Miles or Aretha or Duke or Bach or Debussy or Ornette or Rahsaan or the recently departed Paul Bley.

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Music Interview: Tim Jackson — on Robin Lane, The Band That Time Forgot, Johnny D’s, and the End of an Era

January 12, 2016
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“I hope that these new venues still want to book the occasional seasoned musician, because audiences of all ages still love rock and roll.”

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Rock Remembrance: Prime David Bowie – Let’s Paint Our Faces and Dance

January 11, 2016
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Before Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, before Iggy Pop, before the New York Dolls, David Bowie was my personal post-’60s music inamorata.

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Fuse Feature: Best Live Music Shows of 2015 — As Well as Some Disappointments

January 5, 2016
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The magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.

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Book Review: “Shout It Out Loud” — KISS and Sell

December 22, 2015
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Shout It Out Loud begins as a forensic examination of KISS’s Destroyer album, but it ends up as much more.

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